[island_dude]

It is funny you mention this. I found a board by asus that did exactly that. I had four identical systems that shared the same pathology of killing hard drives. I have no idea why. We found that if we used a raid card the same drives would perform with no problems. All of the drives on the motherboard controller were very short lived. Fortunately, the drives it killed were often still warranted. We tried several different drive vendors to see if we got a bad lot of drives. Crazy.

Before I had this experience, I would have told you that this was crazy to even consider.